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COMBINED CHANGE,TRAY AND ADVERTISING DEVICE Filed July 16, 1923 fisheet sheet 5 Patented Apr l, 1924 ifihllTEl) CHAR-LES L. sun, or ronrsarourrr, VIRGINIA.

COMBINED CHANGE TRAY AND ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Application filed July 16,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. Kan, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Portsmouth, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Change Trays and Advertising Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined change tray and advertisingdevice and has for its object to provide a device of this character which facilitates the picking up and handling of coins and at the same time provides an attractive advertising device which is actuated from and coordinated with the change tray.

One of the principal objects of the invention is to provide a novel change tray which of itself and apart from its association with the advertising device possesses many ad vantages and a high degree of usefulness and merit in that it enables any person to readily pick up coins or the like in an easy, sanitary and convenient manner, the coins being positioned and disposed so as to be susceptible of being readily grasped and handled without the necessity of the person receiving the change scraping or sliding the same to edge of the surface on which it is supported or of indulging in other disagreeable and tedious effort.

Another object is to provide a device of this character and having the foregoing advantages and capacities and wherein the advertising device which is preferably me chanical in its ChiLI'ElClTGl,lS actuatcd through its movements by a very slight force or impulse which the person using the change tray unconsciously imparts thereto.

A still further object is to provide a device of this character which is simple and durable in construction, reliable and effective in operation, attractive in appearance and easy and comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

Other objects and advantages of the invention reside in certain novel features of the construction, arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter more fully set forth and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which:

Figure l is a view in side elevation, showing one embodiment of the invention, the

1923. Serial No. 651,944.

casing being shown in section for the sake of illustration;

Figure 2 is a view in horizontal section, on line 2-2 of Figure 1;

F gure 3 is a fragmentary view in plan;

Figure 4 is a view in front elevation;

Figure 5 is. a View in transverse vertical section, on line 5--5 of Figure 1;

Figure 6 is a fragmentary View, partly i vertical section and. partly in side elevation, showing another form of change tray;

Figure 7 is a fragmentary detail view in section, showing how the coin positioning pins may be formed from the metal of their support; a

Figure 8 is a view in front elevation of the sign employed;

Figure 9 is a view of the sign in rear elevation;

Figure 10 is an enlarged view in horizontal section on line 1010 of Figure 9; and

Figures 11 and 12 are reduced views in vertical section on lines 1111 and 1212,

respectively, of Figure 10. Referring to the drawings wherein for the sake of illustration is shown the preferred embodiments of the invention, the numeral 15 designates a metallic frame which is preferably shaped and constructed as shown in the drawings and which supports and is enclosed by a casing or housing 16.

Above the top of the casing 16 a change tray, designated generally at 17, is arranged. A short rod 18 is secured to and depends from the underside of the change tray and is slidably fitted in a bearing 19 provided therefor in the top of the casing 15 (see Fig. 5). lVithin the casing 16, the outer end of the horizontal portion of an angular connecting bar 20 is fastened, as at 21, to the lower end of the rod 13 and the lower endof the vertical portion of the bar 20 has a pin and slot connection 22 to the long side bar 23 of a rocking frame 24. The rocking frame 2% also includes a short side bar 25 arranged in spaced and substantially parallel relation to the bar 23, and a-transverse bar 26 integral with and connecting the bars 23 and 25. The bars 23 and 25 are pivotally connected to vertical membars 15 of the frame, as indicated at 27, in order to mount the frame 24 for rocking movement. A weight 28 is mounted on the rows, as shown in Figure 6.

transverse bar 26 and tends to rock the frame 24 so as to yieldably support the change tray 17. In order to limit the up ward movement which the Weighted frame may impart to the tray 17 a stop 29 is provided and coacts with the frame 2%, as shown in Figure 1. Obviously springs or other means may be employed for yieldably supporting the change tray in lieu of the means set forth for the sake of illustration.

As shown in Figures 1 to 5, inclusive, the change tray 17 may comprise simply a shallow pan or tray of rectangular form, the bottom of which is provided with a plurality of rows'of openings 30. Below the tray and preferably on the top of the casing 16 a plurality of coin or change positioning pins 31 are arranged. -These pins 31 upstand vertically from the top of the casing 16and are arranged to project through the openings 30 of the bottom of the tray when the tray 17 is depressed. These change posi tioning pins may be made separate and secured to the top of the casing 16 as shown in Figure 5, or they may be constituted by portions of the metallic top which are struck therefrom, as shown at 32 in Figure 7 In Figure 6 another form of change tray, designated at 35, and which may be conveniently utilized in lieu of the change tray 17, is shown. This change tray 35 takes the form of a shallow 'cup having a curved wall of concave-convex form provided in its central lower portion or bottom with an opening 36 and having around the opening 36 a reduced portion 37 presenting a shoulder 38. The upper marginal edge of the tray 35 is beaded inwardly, as at 39. The change t a 35 is yieldably supported above the top of the housing in the same manner as the change tray 17, as shown in Figures 1 to 5, and as hercinabove described, the change tray 35 being connected to the angular bar 20 by a short rod 40. As in the previous instance the top of the housing 16 carries a plurality of rows of change or coin positioning pins designated at ll in Figure 6. In this instance however all of the pins 41 op crate through the single opening 36 and the pins of the center row are of the greatest height while those of the outer rows are of the least height, the pins of the intermediate rows being of successively decreasing height from the center row to the outer With this arrangement when the change tray is depressed the coins will project up through the opening 36 and engage and cant or incline the coin up against a portion of the shoulder 38.

The sign which is organized with the change tray is designated generally at 45 and includes a sign box l6 accommodated in an opening 47 provided therefor in the front of the casing and mounted on the frame 15 for turning movement about its horizontal axis by means of trunnions 48 and bearings 49. Preferably the sign is mounted for turning movement back and forth through 180, being in this as well in other respects an embodiment or specie of the novel forn'iing the subject-matter of my copending application, filed April 18, 1923,

1 As shown in Fig- Serial lluinoer 632,952. ures 1 and 8 the front face of the sign which is designated at 50 bears suitable advertising matter such for instance as the representation of a tilted tobacco can 51 and a pipe 52 below the same and positioned as though to receive a charge or filling of tobacco from the can. Between the can and the pipe the front wall of the sign box is cut away, as at 53. The rear face of the sign is designated at 5% (see Figure 9), and also bears advertising matter such as the representation of a bag of tobacco 55 and he representation of a cigarette paper 56 positioned to receive a filling of tobacco from the bag 55. Between the bag and the paper 56 the rear wall of the sign box is cut away, as at 57. In the sign be); two blocks of fiber or other material 58 and 59 are arranged and together with sheets of mica or isinglass 58 and 59* employed to face the blocks 58 and 59 respectively and a colored sheet 60 interposed between the mica faced blocks completely fill the interior of the sign box. The block 58 is provided with an opening 61 and the block 59 is provided with an opening 62, these openings 61 and 62 occurring between the mica facings of the block so as to provide in effect closed tubes or vessels. They are so located as to be disposed respectively directly behind the openings 53 and 57 of the sign faces 50 and 5 1. In each of the openings 61 and 62 a quantity of tobacco is placed and the tobacco thus contained coacts with the representations on the sign faces to enhance and enliven the actions depicted thereon.

The sign is controlled and actuated in its movements from the change tray 17 or 35 as the case may be and for this purpose the long arm 23 of the rocking frame 24 carries at its forward end a sector-shaped or curved rack 65 which meshes with the pinion 66 fiXed to one of the trunnions 48, as clearly shown in Figures 1 and 2.

In use the change or coins are deposited on the change tray 17 or as the case may be and when the person receiving the change places his fingers on the change tray for this purpose he will thereby'impart to the tray a slight downwardimpulse. The tray is yieldably and in fact somewhat sensitively balanced and will at once quickly descend. Downward movement of the tray will bring the change or coin positioning pins into action and these pins will place the coins so that they may be readily picked up or grasped. At the same time the frame 24; will rock in a counter clockwise direction as viewed in Figure 1 and through the rack 65 and pinion 66 will turn the sign 45 through 180 and bring the rear face 5 thereof into view. This will cause the tobacco in the tube 62 to appear through the opening 57, as flowing from the bag into the paper 56. As soon as the person receiving the change picks the same from the tray the weight 28 will return the tray to its uppermost position, as shown in Figure 1 and the incidental movement of the rocking frame 2 1 will turn the sign 41-5 back to its first position with the face 50 thereof presented to view. its the face 50 again comes into view the tobacco in the tube 61 will appear through the opening 53 as flowing from the can 51 into the pipe 52.

In this manner there is provided a change tray which renders easy, convenient and sanitary the picking up of change or coins and the operation of the tray actuates and controls an advertising device which is preferably mechanical in its action and which is so ingenious and novel in its appeal as to attract and hold the attention and interest of all who come within its range.

I claim:

1. In combination, a change tray, means for yieldably supporting the change tray, and change positioning pins cooperable therewith.

2. In combination, a change tray having movable means facilitating the handling of the change, a movable sign, and motion transmission devices between the movable means of the change tray and the sign for actuating the sign when the change tray is operated.

3. In combination, a change tray, means for yieldably supporting said change tray, said tray having an opening, and a plurality of change positioning pins arranged to project through the opening when the tray is depressed.

4. In combination, a change tray, means for yielda-bly supporting said change tray, said tray having an opening, and a plurality of change positioning pins arranged to project through the opening when the tray is depressed, said pins being arranged in rows of different heights.

5. In combination, a change tray, means for yieldably supporting said change tray, said tray having an opening, and a plurality of change positioning pins arranged to project through the opening when the tray is depressed, said pins being arranged in rows of difierent heights, said tray having a shoulder cooperable with the pins for positioning the coin in an inclined position with its edge against the shoulder.

6. In combination, a stationary frame, a casing therefor, a change tray arranged in spaced relation above the top of th casing, means for yieldabiy supporting the change tray in spaced relation above the top of the casing comprising a weighted rocking frame mounted within the casing and connected with the change ray, and change positioning pins mounted on the top of the casing and cooperable with the tray when the same is depressed.

7. In combination, a stationary frame, a casing therefor, a change tray arranged in spaced relation above the top of the casing,

means for yieldably supporting the change tray in spaced relation above the top of the casing comprising a weighted rocking frame mounted within the casing and connected with the change tray, change positioning pins mounted on the top of the easing and cooperable with the tray when the same is depressed, a sign mounted for turning movement on said frame, and means for turning said sign from said rocking frame and as the same is rocked.

8. In combination, a stationary frame, a casing therefor, a change tray arranged in spaced relation abovethe top of the casing, means for yieldably supporting the change tray in spaced relation above the top of the casing comprising a weighted rocking frame mounted within the casing and connected with the change tray, change positioning pins mounted on the top of the easing and cooperable with the tray when the same is depressed, a sign mounted for turning movement on said frame and having a plurality of faces adapted to be successively presented to view, and motion transmission means between the rocking frame and the sign for moving the sign when the change tray is depressed and again when it returns to elevated position.

9. In combination with a movable change tray having change positioning means, a sign operatively connected with the change tray and actuated by the movements thereof.

10. In combination, a chan e tray having movable means facilitating the handling of the change, a sign mounted for turning movement back and forth about a horizontal axis, and gearing between the movable means of the change tray and the sign for turning the sign when the change tray is operated.

CHARLES L. KEE. 

